Sign-displaying device.



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PATENTED MAY 19, 1908.

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No. 887,879. PATENTED MAY 19, 1908. Z. T. & E. UBIL.

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SIGN DISPLAYING DEVICE.

APPLICATION FILED NOV. 14.1906.

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No. 887,879. PATENTED MAY 19, 1908. Z. T. &: E. UBIL.

SIGN DISPLAYING DEVICE.

APPLICATION FILED NOV. 14.1906.

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ZAGHARY TAYLOR UBIL AND EDWARD UBIL, OF MORTON, PENNSYLVANIA.

SIGN DISPLAYI'N G DE VICE Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented May 19, 1908.

Application filed November 14, 1906. Serial No. 343,360.

To all whom it may concern;

Be it known that we, ZACHARY TAYLOR UBIL "and EDWARD UBIL, citizens of the United States, residents of Morton, Delaware county, State of Pennsylvania, have invented a new and usefulSign-Displaying Device, of which the following is a specification.

' Our invention relates to improvements in sign dis laying devices. i

- Our ject is to provide improved mechanism for displaying one after the other of a series of sheets or cards containing printed or illustrated subject matter. This mechanism is also adapted to display first one side and then the other side of each of said sheets or cards,

' shown in Figs. 1 and 2.

Our device is especially adapted for operation in connection with passenger carrying vehicles. 'The actuating force being a pen-- dulum adapted to be'swung by the oscillations of the vehicle.

Referring to the drawings :Figure 1 is a plan View of our device with the cards omitted. Fig. 2 is a front elevation of the same with the cards omitted. Fig. 3 is a section on line 3, 30f Fig. 1 with the cards included. Fig. 4 is a detail of a display card in perspective with the supporting pins engaged in the notches. Fig. 5 is a fragmentary .view of the card with thesupporting pin disengaged from the notch. Fig.6 is an elevation of the pawl and ratchet operated by the pendulum.

Similar numerals refer to similar parts throughout the several views.

Our invention com rises the two wheels 9 and 10 provided with a series of apertures around its circumference in which are loosely seated the slotted pins 1 1 as clearly shown in Figs. '1 and 2. The Wheels 9 and 10 are loosely mounted on the stationary shaft 31 su ported by the standards 12.

Vheel 9 is provided with gear teeth on its outer periphery adapted to mesh with the pinion 14. The slotted pins 11 are adapted to receive the cards 15 as indicated in Figs. 3, 4 and 5, that is, each card is secured on opposite sides in the slots of a pair of said pins 11, one of each air being in wheel 9 and the other in wheei 10. Circular guards 16 and 17 are secured to the stationary standards 12, close to the outer sides of wheels 9 and 10 as These guards have part of their extension closer to the wheel and part more removed therefrom, and are direction at other periods move them inwardly through the wheels at one period of the wheels rotative movement, and to permit theiractuation in the opposite of said movement. The cards 15 are rovided with the notches 18having incline sides. These notches are located in the middle of the opposite ends of each card and are adapted to cooperate with the pins 11 for the purpose hereinafter to be described. On the shaft 19 which is suitably supported by brackets such as 20, is hung the pendulum 21 carrying the arm 22 with the pawl 23. Keyed to shaft 19 is the ratchet 24 for cooperating with the pawl 23. The beveled gear wheel 25 which is also keyed to shaft 19 cooperates with beveled gear wheel 26, keyed to shaft 27 to which is also keyed the pinion 14. It will thus be seen that by a rocking or oscillating or jarring motion of the vehicle, in the required directions the pendulum 21 will be oscillated to cause the ratchet and pawl actuation of the rotative parts. A second pendulum 28 is similarly mounted on shaft 27 and operates the pawl 29 and ratchet 30 onsaid shaft 27 to actuate pinion 14. t

It will be understood that the oscillation of the vehicle in directions in angles with that required to move endulum 21 will serve to move the pendu um 28 to cause the actuation of the pinion 14. In

a plane at right 1 other words the arrangement of the pendulums to sweep in planes at right angles with each other, Wlll serve to utilize, to the fullest extent, the various arring or oscillating movements of the vehicle.

As above indicated the rotation of pinion 14 which is meshed with the gear teeth on wheel 9 will serve to cause the rotation of wheel 9. I

Wheel 9 is supported loosely on a fixed shaft 31 which is secured from rotation by the set-screws 32 in standards 12. The purpose of having shaft 31 rigid against rotation Is to furnish a sup ort for the brackets 33, the pur ose of who will be hereinafter de scribed. In brackets 33 is ournaled a countershaft 34 upon which are keyed pinions 35 and 36 meshing with pinions 37 which is connected with wheel 9 and pinion 38 which is connected with wheel 10, by which means an equal movement in the same direction will be communicated from the wheel 9 to wheel 10.

The 0 eration of our device is as follows It will e understood that the pawl and ratchet actuation will be such as to move wheels 9 and 10 in the direction of the arrow as shown in Fig. 3, andit will also be understood that this rotative movement of wheels 9 and 10 will be a step by step movement. In Fi 3 the cards are shown in the various positlons which they will assume as the wheels are slowly rotated. Three of the cards to the left and below the center of the wheels, are supported by the block or projection 39. As the third card countin from the left below the center of the whee lookin at Fig. 3, is moved in a position'from whic 1t clears block 39, its ins 11, will have traveled down the sides of t e cards to near enough the middle to encounter the inclined edges of notches 18. At the same time ,the portion of uards 16 and 17 will have been encountered iy the pins 11 to cause the pins to move forward toward the card and securely engage the card in said notches 18. In this position the card is held first in a perpendicular position, by gravity and then in a gradually mclininlg position asthe wheel continues to rotate, unt' towards the upper part. of the wheel, it will first become approximately horizontal and then inclined so that the. right hand side will be higher than the left hand side. This inclination will increase until the card becomes substantially vertical again, but inverted from the osition at which it started from the lower eft hand side of the wheel. In the position shown in the extreme left hand side of Fi 3 above the wheel centers, the opposite slde of the card will be'displayed through the aperture 40 and again through the aperture 41, from the side which was displayed rior to its last rotation around the wheel.

t would also be understood that after the cards come into the upper left hand quadrant of the wheel the uards 16"andg17 will be withdrawn again om the side of the wheel to permit the pins 11 to be forced out of the notches by the inclined sides thereof, thus permitting the cards to drop down upon the projection 42 of bracket 33. This construction of the uards 16 and 17 is clearly shown in Fig. 1. The card furthest to the left above the center of the wheel willrest upon this projection 42 and be displayed through aperture 40 until the wheels 9 and 10 rotate sufficiently to push the card beyond the edge of 42. This position, which is only a momentary one, is shown in Fig. 3, as that of the card now furthest to the left above the center of the wheel. From this position it will fall immediately to substantially the position shown by the card furthest to the left in Fig. 3, below the center of the wheel. In'this last position the card rests upon projection 39 and is displayed through aperture 41, until another card falls in front of it. Each card is gradually dragged off projection 39 by the ssmsva rotation of wheels 9 and 1O and the operation continues as above described. By the mechanism above described a large number of sign cards can be arranged in a very small space and dis layed one after the other, first one side an then the other side. By this device also the only motive ower required for its operation is furnished y the oscillatlng rocking, and sudden starting and stoppmg movements of the vehicle What we claim is:

1. In a sign displaying device, the combination of-a rotative element rovided with a plurality of pairs of opposite y disposed slotted ins loosely seate therein, a lurality of cards carried by the said pairs of s otted ins, and having a limited movement in said s ots, 80' stops for limiting said movement, and pendulum actuated mechanism for operating the rotative element.

2. The combination of a rotative element, a plurality of oppositely disposed pairs of slotted pins carried thereby, a plurality of display elementshaving recesses with inclined margins at their op osite ends for 00- operating with the slotte pins, one of each pair of slotted pins being longitudinall movable, and a uard for cooperating with said longitudinal y movable pins ositioned at one side of the path of travel 0 the rotative element, one art of said guard being closer to the rotative element than another part, and adapted to limit the longitudinal movement of the slotted pins, substantially as and for the purpose described.

3. In a sign displaying device, a plurality of display cards notched at their opposite 100 ends, a step by step rotative structure, slotted pins loosely seated thereinadapted to cooperate with the notches to support the cards and stationary uards for controlling the movement of the pins as the structure ro- 105 tates, permitting their disengagement with the notches durm part of the rotation andpreventing such isengagement durin another part of the rotation, substantia y as and for the pur ose described.

4. In a sign isplaying device, a plurality of display cards, a step by step rotative structure, slotted pins loosely seated therein in o positely disposed pairs for supporting tl ie cards, and stationary guards for controlling 115 the longitudinal movement of the pins as the structure rotates, to prevent the independent V movement of the card with respect to its supporting pins durin part of said rotation and to permit such in ependent movement dur- 120 ing another part of such rotation.

. Z. TAYLOR UBIL.

EDWARD UBIL.

Witnesses:

Ms. C. WOBENSMITH, HOWARD S. OKIE. 

